Projects 2005
Bear
Hunt!
Our
talented trio were on the road again in November 2005.
They hunted for Bears in Lochaber, and in Strontian were
part of The Sunart Centre Book Festival.
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Scrapers &
Tooters
Saturday
15th & 16th October 2005
Queen's
Cross Church, Aberdeen
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The
7th weekend and 2nd time Scrapers & Tooters have visited
Aberdeen, local musicians worked with SCO players and
Stephen Deazley on two pieces of music:
Rossini:
Overture to the Italian Girl of Algiers
Beethoven:
Allegretto Scherzando, Minuet and Trio
Symphony No 8 in F major
'You
are making people happy'
'Thanks
for an excellent weekend' |
Scrapers &
Tooters
Saturday
10th & Sunday 11th September 2005
Perth
Concert Hall, Perth
Scrapers
& Tooters visited Perth for the first time in September
2005. The orchestra took part in the opening weekend celebrations
'Come Away In'.
'It was such a joy
to see the enthusiasm of all the amateur players, and the pleasure
they took in playing in the new hall'
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Flute Workshop
On
2nd June 2005 35 flautists from 7 different schools attended
a workshop given by the SCO flute section Alison Mitchell
and Lis Dooner. They worked on warm-ups, technique,
and a piece which was performed by all the participants
at the end of the day. A few pupils also played
solos and duets in a mini masterclass. |
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Bear Hunt!
| Sanday
In
June 2005 SCO Education took the Bear Hunt!
trio to Sanday on Orkney as part of St. Magnus on Tour.
The trio also worked
with the Sanday Fiddle Club, preparing a programme of
music for an evening performance in the Community Hall.
The performance included new works by Peter Maxwell Davies
and Kevin McCrae as well as an arrangement of Farkas'
Eary Hungarian Dances by Ruth Ellis. |
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Scrapers &
Tooters
Saturday
12th & Sunday 13th March 2005
Central
Hall, Tollcross, Edinburgh
The
4th weekend in Edinburgh took place in March. Over 60 amateur
musicians converged in the capital to look at two pieces of
music:
Britten's
Courtly Dances from Gloriana
Offenbach's
overture to Orpheus in the Underworld
The Queen
Who Didn't Come to Tea
March/April
2005
SCO
Young Adventurer series - orchestral dramas for families
What
happens when you have invited the Queen to tea, booked the orchestra
to play her favourite tunes and asked all your friends to come
too? Will she turn up at all?
The
second in the SCO's family concert series, The Queen who Didn't
Come to Tea! was a newly commissioned music drama from award-winning
Scottish writer Alexander McCall Smith. It brought delightfully
quirky stories to an orchestra platform packed with fanfares,
foibles, battles and bootstraps! |
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Wind Farm
Saturday
19th & Sunday 20th February 2005
Queen's
Hall, Edinburgh
Photos:
SCO Education
This
new project is an extension of the Scrapers & Tooters programme
for amateur musicians. Sixteen amateur woodwind and brass muscians
gathered at the Queen's Hall in central Edinburgh for an intensive
weekend of music making. Forming a wind orchestra, the musicians
tackled a new arrangement of Peer Gynt by Peter Franks, commissioned
specially for the project and conducted by Stephen Deazley.
The players also formed two wind quintets and a brass quintet,
receiving expert tuition from three SCO musicians.
The
fruits of their labours were shared with friends and families
at an informal performance at the Queen's Hall on the Sunday
evening.
If you would like more information
about SCO Education's programme of projects, please contact:
Lucy Perry - 0131 478 8355
SCO Education
SCO, 4 Royal Terrace, Edinburgh, EH7 5AB